hope you are still feeling okay.
Hi, Carol - yes, I'm feeling much better. Just rather distracted by family health stuff: My sister & brother-in-law are down here @ the Mayo in Scottsdale. He was originally scheduled for neurosurgery this Monday, but then the Mayo docs took a closer look at what their family doctor had called "...a 'little' heart murmur; no big deal" --- and the neurosurgery has now been postponed because they need to replace his aortic valve instead. The valve replacement is tomorrow.
Was great to see Colin's nice 200 AMPS - good work, Carol!
I've also been conditioned by a hypo scare early on in this sugar dance - he was acting very hungry - laying almost in his food bowl - I just decided to check his BG "for the heck of it" - and it was 28 (on alphatrak) so I've always been a little wary of seeing him act really hungry
Just a few words of encouragement here: Keep in mind, Carol, that that scary hypo event back in August
was very early on ... and you know
so MUCH more now than you did back then
(we're all proud of you, btw). Just look back at that little scare as the incident that underscored for you the true value of home-testing.
You're an ace at the ear-pokes now, AND you also know how to steer out of a low BG# when it's needed. Embrace your growing level of experience and move forward with the confidence that you've got a great skill-set going on now (and friends here who will cheer you on and be there for you no matter what's going on from day-to-day).
About that hungry-kitty thing: ECID, of course, but I've gotta say that my "chow-hound" Bat-Bat didn't really stop with the "I'm
starving, Mom!" routine until she was more consistently running in blues and greens only. Diabetes makes them
feel hungrier, period. And as you know, I'm not a fan of any dry food (Bat was a
serious dry kibble addict). And even though she no longer squawks at me repeatedly during the day/night, she is still
very enthusiastic (and chirpy) about mealtimes. As I believe she's part Labrador Retriever
, she will
always be on the lookout for crumbs that Dave drops on the kitchen floor because long-ingrained habits die hard. I feel very strongly about this: We
make our kitties into dry food addicts. And we can
break that addiction, too. Not easy, but it
can be done. So ...
@Sue and Oliver (GA) Sue is spot-on about that tough-love approach.
Nobody is
ever going to make me buy the idea that there's such a thing as "zero-carb" dry kibble*, no matter how cleverly they market the product.
(When I see those Javalina fly past my house just like the Canadian geese; maybe
then...) So I'm rooting for you 100% on getting him to low-carb canned exclusively!
(*Dave likes to say, "Sure looks to me like kibble =
killable! I don't think I'd even feed that stuff to a
dog now ..."
)
I've only given Colin a couple feedings of the YA, before that he was strictly canned food(except when I screw up). I didn't see a difference from his usual numbers, and he seemed happier, so even if there's a difference, unless it's a lot, I'm probably going to keep giving it to him.
